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WORLD POPULATION GROWTH FROM YEAR 0 TO STABILIZATION
Data from the Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis
Year Population (in billions) Source
0 0.30 Durand
1000 0.31 Durand
1250 0.40 Durand
1500 0.50 Durand
1750 0.79 D & C
1800 0.98 D & C
1850 1.26 D & C
1900 1.65 D & C
1910 1.75 Interp.
1920 1.86 WPP63
1930 2.07 WPP63
1940 2.30 WPP63
1950 2.52 WPP94
1960 3.02 WPP94
1970 3.70 WPP94
1980 4.45 WPP94
1990 5.30 WPP94
1994 5.63 WPP94
2000 6.23 WPP94
2025 8.47 WPP94
2050 10.02 LR
2100 11.19 LR
2150 11.54 LR
Stabilization
(Just after 2200) 11.6 LR
Sources:
Durand: J.D. Durand, 1974. Historical Estimates of World Population:
An Evaluation (University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies
Center, Philadelphia), mimeo.
D & C: United Nations, 1973. The Determinants and Consequences of
Population Trends, Vol. 1 (United Nations, New York).
WPP63: United Nations, 1966. World Population Prospects as
Assessed in 1963 (United Nations, New York).
WPP94: United Nations, 1993. World Population Prospects: The 1994
Revision (United Nations, New York)
LR: United Nations, 1992. Long-range World Population Projection:
Two Centuries of Population Growth, 1950-2150 (United Nations,
New York).
Interp: Estimate interpolated from adjacent population estimates.
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